Derrick Bostrom Quotes
After last Friday's Meat Puppets show, their annual fall visit to Phoenix's Crescent Ballroom, I went up and introduced myself to the two tapers in the process of packing their gear.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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I just want people that like my music to like me.
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.
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Time is a very precious gift - so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
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I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.
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I was a teenage godmother.
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I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.
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A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
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... in this impersonal world of the nine-digit zip code, credit cards, and numbered bank accounts, in this world of no marriage, late marriage, and remarriage, the operative word in office relationships is 'family.
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There are no signposts in the sea.
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One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.
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If I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.
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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.
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After last Friday's Meat Puppets show, their annual fall visit to Phoenix's Crescent Ballroom, I went up and introduced myself to the two tapers in the process of packing their gear.
